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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
Hard ni sasete (make me hard)
Noriko, Tujiko
Tujiko Noriko’s music is a stutter of eccentric fractals, a kaleidoscope of delicate and demanding surprises. There are many different textural, cultural, and personal ideas at play on Hard ni sasete ("Make Me Hard"). Noriko is definitely a considerable figure of avant-garde technique, but she doesn't make us suffer for it. She lets us into her sandbox and shows us all her toys. Her interjections of found melodies, concrete noise, affecting sense of disparate elements matched together, and Noriko's extremely emotive voice, are all placed in the expansive background of repetition. Noriko's song style depicts fictions and stories all in Japanese and is so charmingly "100 per cent nerdy glitch-boy free”. Noriko's exercises in distressed digitalia sound strictly hand-crafted and full of color, are far-reaching and complex, toggling through thousands of pieces of aural detritus, throbbing for the next step.
Tujiko Noriko (JP/FR) lives in Paris, France. She started singing around 1978-79, and bought her first synthesizer and sampler in 1999. Noriko's first album, Keshou To Heitai, ("Makeup and Soldiers"), was recorded in January 2000, with her first live performance of that material taking place around the same time in Kyoto. Noriko released her Mego debut, Shojo Toji, in 2001, followed by her I Forgot the Title 12" and Make Me Hard CD in 2002. She is a member of the Slidelab design organization, and helped launch the magazine OK Fred. Noriko's fourth full-length recording, From Tokyo To Naiagara, was released by the Tomlab label in June 2003.